CBP Budget Plans Include $24 Million for AD/CV Enhanced Bonding, 'Federated View of Importers'
The White House is seeking an additional $24.3 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for intelligent enforcement at CBP, the agency said in its budget justification document. The largest chunk of that, $17 million, would go toward implementing the 2017 executive order that called for improvements to antidumping and countervailing duty collection security through enhanced bonding processes (see 1704030033). Of that $17 million, $5 million would go toward system updates in ACE and the Automated Targeting System, while $12 million would be for "developing analytics capability that compliments ACE cargo processing and builds trade specific targeting in ATS," it said.
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CBP plans to use $3 million of the intelligent enforcement funds to create a new "federated view of importers," the agency said. The federated view capability will allow for consolidated "importer data and enforcement workflows, to ensure CBP operators and analysts have an integrated awareness of activities for an importer at all levels," it said. "Coupled with analytics, this will provide the agency a complete enforcement approach to more quickly identify not only the illicit transactions, but the network of parties involved, and more rapidly respond to and deter fraud." Another $4.3 million would be used to "support workforce modernization efforts, adapting the roles of trade staff to the changing trade environment, and building expertise to address the complexities of supply chains, risk management, and trade facilitation."
CBP would use another $15.7 million for its revenue modernization plans, it said. That money would be used for developing "data analytics across shared data from disparate revenue collection systems, including the ACE and the [Seized Assets and Case Tracking System (SEACATS)], by initiating the Revenue Modernization Common Business Intelligence Framework," CBP said. CBP said it estimates completion of the revenue modernization initiative by 2023.